FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W1735548500> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W1735548500 abstract "Within the last three decades, contemporary North America came to reinvent a socially focused genre of literary personal narratives. These new editorial and writing projects, published in the form of collections of personal narratives, emerged as a tool for the socially voiceless to secure some measure of agency in their contemporary social and cultural situation. Projects such as the Freedom Writers’ Diary or volumes of the Voice of Witness book series fit in the process that is currently labeled social empowerment. Witnesses express a deep urge to share their story in the hope to denounce their experience of an enduring social injustice. The written word, primary a means for self-disclosure, serves to exorcise the suffering associated to this specific predicament. The narrators engage in a powerful self-investigative gesture oriented towards resilience and renewed enfranchisement in regaining control over their life and environment. At the moment of publication, however, these testimonies come to be validated as authentic examples of the injustices they disclose. These examples serve an educational purpose: raising the audience’s awareness and opening deliberative fora for these issues to be discussed and for solutions to be hammered out and eventually implemented. The purpose of this dissertation is to propose a theoretical model for the subgenre of testimonials of social empowerment. With the concept of empowerment as groundwork, the model develops a textual approach framed in a psychosocial structure. I argue that testimonials may be described as examples of Jurgen Habermas’s communicative action. As speech acts aimed at reaching understanding, testimonials capitalize both on the binding and bonding aspects of illocutionary force in the hope to secure with their audience an ongoing dialogue over issues of social justice. The volumes, as unofficial public spheres, mobilize the normative and practical dynamics at work in social movements. These dynamics express as two narrative guiding threads: an aesthetic based on impact, and an ethics based on responsibility. The texts’ aesthetic develops a form of perlocutionary realism instantiating a sense of authenticity and sincerity embodied in the narrators’ voices. The resulting impact is coupled to moral concerns based on a polysemic understanding of social responsibility, on which narrators seek to build their narratives’ ethical potential. A series of case studies allowed to demonstrate that both narrative threads are realized as an appropriation of four paradigmatic forms of rhetorical ethos, each based on a specific realm of the social world: intimacy, justice, spirituality and activism." @default.
• W1735548500 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W1735548500 creator A5048446303 @default.
• W1735548500 creator A5052188437 @default.
• W1735548500 date "2014-09-05" @default.
• W1735548500 modified "2023-09-27" @default.
• W1735548500 title "Empowering voices: testimonial literature and social justice in contemporary American culture" @default.
• W1735548500 hasPublicationYear "2014" @default.
• W1735548500 type Work @default.
• W1735548500 sameAs 1735548500 @default.
• W1735548500 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W1735548500 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W1735548500 hasAuthorship W1735548500A5048446303 @default.
• W1735548500 hasAuthorship W1735548500A5052188437 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C107038049 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C107993555 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C108170787 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C112698675 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C144133560 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C15744967 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C199033989 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C20555606 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C2776900844 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C2777266375 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C2778637750 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C2779608884 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C29595303 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C36289849 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConcept C77805123 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C107038049 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C107993555 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C108170787 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C112698675 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C124952713 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C142362112 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C144024400 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C144133560 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C15744967 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C17744445 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C199033989 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C199539241 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C20555606 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C2776900844 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C2777266375 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C2778637750 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C2779608884 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C29595303 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C36289849 @default.
• W1735548500 hasConceptScore W1735548500C77805123 @default.
• W1735548500 hasLocation W17355485001 @default.
• W1735548500 hasOpenAccess W1735548500 @default.
• W1735548500 hasPrimaryLocation W17355485001 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W1481093225 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2014125310 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2045887250 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2049058313 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2074033845 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2140562372 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2142509210 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2329361786 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2498568234 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2557469232 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2568766822 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2735893057 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2744760555 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2952761852 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2954704950 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W2981714181 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W3006387310 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W3017178398 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W3163533566 @default.
• W1735548500 hasRelatedWork W851061510 @default.
• W1735548500 isParatext "false" @default.
• W1735548500 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W1735548500 magId "1735548500" @default.
• W1735548500 workType "article" @default.